Aaina Bhargava reviews La Moustache in Frieze Magazine: “A mound of sand sits on the top floor of Empty Gallery in Hong Kong, glistening in the gallery’s signature pitch-black darkness. Nearby, a staircase leads to the level below. As if hovering like a mirage or suspended in mid-air, a stream of sand trickles to the ground. In Paul Kos’s Sand Piece (1971), grains filter through a small aperture in the ceiling above, creating a captivating illusory effect of extreme slow motion.”
Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces will be on view at Cushion Works in San Francisco from February 21 through April 4. Map of Traces (2025) is a 29-minute film by Hong Kong artist Chan Hau Chun. It was recorded on MiniDV, Google Street View, police surveillance cameras, and various phones. Its primary subject is human relationships in the wake of the 2019 demonstrations. Its many opposites include redaction and revelation, exile and homecoming, the fugitive and the fixed. Its cardinal tension lies in the gap between authorized narrative and lived experience.
Mask, umbrella, camera, uniform, glasses, backpack, barricades. The grain of memory, a low-hanging fog. How best to distinguish between what’s happened, what’s here, and what’s around the bend? Throughout, the tink tink tink of the crosswalk signal. When to stop, when to go, when to run.
From ARTnews: Opening on April 16, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on its staff to organize the show. The exhibition’s curatorial team includes director Connie Butler, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs Ruba Katrib, associate curators Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen, assistant curator Kari Rittenbach, curatorial assistant Sheldon Gooch, and curatorial coordinator Andrea Sánchez.
Taro Masushio and Cici Wu are amongst the participating artists of this year’s exhibition. Please see the link below for further information.
On February 6 and 7, Vunkwan Tam will be exhibiting new works as part of an exhibition, 野有死蘭, in Room 303 at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong. Venue support from Crash.
Jaime Chu reviews La Moustache in issue #86 of Spike Magazine, Salad Days: “What is the fine line between undiagnosed paranoia and collective psychosis? Emmanuel Carrère’s 2005 film La Moustache, adapted from his own 1986 novel of the same name, portrays Marc, a Parisian architect who decides to shave off his mustache before a party one night. To spiraling consequences, it turns out: for neither his friends, nor his coworkers, nor his wife acknowledge the difference, even denying that he ever had a mustache to begin with. When his wife threatens to send him to a psychiatric institution, Marc, in a moment of panic, makes an escape, boarding the next plane out of Paris to Hong Kong.
A reality without consensus, and the destabilizing effect an experience of it might prompt, is the subject of a formally attentive and hermeneutically provocative exhibition curated by Jordan Stein, a longtime fixture of Bay Area arts, at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery. His riff on Carrère begins in a kind of foyer, where a trio of found-object works set the table for a negotiation between the dissemination and containment of uncomfortable knowledge.”
Cici Wu is participating in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, which is on view from January 24 until April 19, 2026.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings is the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (b. 1951, Busan, South Korea; d. 1982, New York City). Cha produced an expansive range of works across text-based media, video, and performance, including her posthumously published book, Dictée (1982). The artist’s interdisciplinary practice gave shape to the experimental art scenes in San Francisco, New York City, and beyond.
After emigrating from South Korea to the United States, Cha enrolled in 1969 at UC Berkeley, where she studied art practice, comparative literature, and film. Keenly attuned to the active role that audiences play in the creation of meaning, she prioritized nonlinear narratives to allow for more open-ended forms of interpretation—what she termed a method of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering.” The retrospective adopts this framework to allow for a range of entry points into Cha’s work, guiding visitors through the themes—memory, displacement, and the mutability of language, among others—that recur in her oeuvre.
Since 1992, owing to a generous gift from the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation, BAMPFA has served as the steward of Cha’s art and archives. Gathering over one hundred artworks and archival materials from across her short but prolific career, as well as select loans of works by Cha and other artists, Multiple Offerings highlights the inventive, playful, and meditative methods of Cha’s practice while also situating her work within a constellation of artistic forebearers, peers, and contemporary artists for whom she has long been a lodestar.
The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue—the first museum monograph dedicated to the artist in over twenty years.
Not With Symbols is now on view at Bodenrader, Chicago through February 28, 2026.
“Metaphor cannot supplant the legible image and assume the role of descriptor. Ours is a distorted reality, in which images are compressed, flattened beneath glass and gloss, and lit from behind. Here, images and their meanings or representations are slippery, as are the ocular and cognitive processes we rely on to perceive and comprehend them. Despite this, logic is not abandoned altogether in favor of a nonsensical miasma of free association. Rather image itself is probed and worked to such a degree that it both dissolves and reifies within (or in spite of) its own physical, technological, political and social structures.
Ideas of legibility and readability are often at odds with the level of access granted by each of these artists. Some achieve this internally by preventing a clear understanding of their content through omission, redaction, and dilution. Others pack in detail, clarity, and specificity to such a degree that viewers are subconsciously compelled to decode the image through pure visual recognition. No matter the approach, these artists each exploit the innate structures of image and representation to expose our social and biological compulsions for resolution.”
Participating artists include Eberhard Havekost, Taro Masushio, Alan Michael, Josephine Pryde and Raha Raissnia.
A new exhibition at Layr, Vienna, titled “…each thing is itself in not being itself, and is not itself in being itself…” and curated by Boris Ondreička, is now on view through February 28, 2026.
“The exhibition “…each thing is itself in not being itself, and is not itself in being itself…”[1] departs from the foundations of the religious/spiritual and ontological philosophy of Keiji Nishitani (1900–1990). The Japanese thinker explained that things exist only in relation to other things and understanding them therefore also requires exploring what they are not. His thinking was significantly shaped by his studies with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg, Germany, and ultimately made him a key figure in intellectual exchange and mediation between the hemispheres who could critically compare and synthetise various schools of thought of the West and the East.”
Participating artists include Anchan/Anna Daučiková, Anna Andreeva, Jędrzej Bieńko, Igor and Ivan Buharov, Stano Filko, Denisa Lehocká, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Luboš Plný, Kazuna Taguchi, Philipp Timischl, Petr Válek, Cici Wu, Guan Xiao and Leah Ke Yi Zheng.
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Calling the Lights is now on view at Chahmberlin in Zurich from 13 December 2025 until 8 February 2026. Address: Haldenstrasse 87, Zürich, Switzerland 8045 Opening: 13 December 2025, 6–9 pm
Participating artists include Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Ericka Beckman, Camille Clair, Emma Guareschi, Doris Guo and Megan Plunkett.
Emalin is pleased to present Means of Reproduction a group exhibition of artist merchandise co-organised by Stanislava Kovalcikova and Jeppe Ugelvig. Dates: 6 December 2025 – 19 February 2026
Means of Reproduction brings together a selection of everyday products by an intergenerational group of contemporary artists — garments, kitchenware, home accessories, jewellery, furniture, and countless other things one might more accurately call ‘merchandise’. By engaging merchandise from thirteen artists and placing it alongside their ‘originals’, the exhibition asks both gallery and audience to question the stability of distinctions between fine artists, fine artworks, and their tiered product lines.
Installation view of Xper. Xr: Bad Timing.
Courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery
Photo: Michael Yu
繼 《Tailwhip》之後,Empty Gallery 再度為大家帶來與Xper.Xr 二度合作的展覽 《Bad Timing》,展出的是 Xper.Xr 在近三十年間首度發佈的全新創作。 Xper 在香港藝術史中的位置極具開創性及啟導性,但其成就卻一直被忽視;可以說,Xper 幾乎是以單人匹馬之力,肩負起工業音樂、無浪潮和噪音音樂共同傳承中所體現的激進個人主義和反威權主義的各種潛力在一個地區的整體表現。 《Bad Timing》中這位從未停步的煽動者重拾他擱置已久的繪畫實踐 (他前次展出畫作已是1991年在Quart Society的事),當中更出現一種反常及出人意表的轉向,直指社會人像圖。
受到香港近年因政府施政不當、政治衝突及精英棄責所帶來的低氣壓挑動, 這組全新畫作描繪一班傾向背棄公眾信義的國際社政作俑者:由金融專家、科技權威到宗教領袖。每幅人像作品皆相稱於其取自經典流行曲曲目的譏諷式標題(例如「 MTV Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack」),此可視為是 Xper在其職業生涯中對具代表性曲調假意翻唱的執迷延伸轉移到繪畫這個媒介之上,且同時把社會的權力行使與文化產業的運作深刻徹骨地聯繫起來。
取材自公開照片,Xper首先在由豬片拉展而成的圓面上繪畫指涉人物的相像,然後對這人像進行類儀式性塗污,這種表現主義式的朦朧處理,使得出來的畫面充滿了人造膿液、粘液和其他物質所造成的耀目沉積床。這些帶宣洩性(並且非常幽默)的糟蹋痕跡指向這些作品是出自私人表演的隱密領域。它們暗示自身的功能是作為 Xper (可能是失敗的)治療嘗試以從他心智景觀中驅除某些特定公眾人物所帶來的毒性影響——一種在個體經驗與媒體認可共識現實兩者間邊界日益多孔的文化時刻中強而有力的關聯脈衝。然而,如果這些畫作籍它們的表現力在姿態上指向一種理想的控制,在這樣做之時它們是充分了解到這只是一種出自青少年幻想式的簡單動作——缺乏任何真正的政治效力,帶出的只是以黑色至極的幽默作為潛在阻力的一種形式。
雖然《Bad Timing》展出的人像畫作為宣洩憤怒多少帶著真摯的出口可能發揮了很好的作用,但就如 Xper 其他的創作實踐般,它們充斥著矛盾和自我破壞、死路和拐錯彎:在私下操縱中成自動毀滅的悲喜劇物品。它們預演甚至沈醉於其自身的社政失敗,把批評——藝術資本最吹噓的形式——搬演為自我撕破的鬧劇。這組畫作與觀者及彼此交換著合謀的目光,作為一個整體它們又似乎表達出一種了解恐懼的感覺:鬼崇惡意的一種模仿,或是潛伏於宏莊詭計背後一種龐大而可怕共謀的輪廓。當其優雅地指使空間的中央位置讓路予迷宮般的黑暗時,《Bad Timing》 讓人聯想到社政的未來不僅已被取消了回贖權,並且以某種方式故意妥協了——受制於一種永遠潛伏在我們集體意識邊緣之外的幽暗共識。